Meanings
plural Halcions
- countableuncountablemedicineBrand name for triazolam.
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[…]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.
1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep
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Origin
Marketing name, probably from halcyon.
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Halcion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Halcion
“Halcion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Halcion. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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